diff --git a/Modules/MapperExt/files.cmake b/Modules/MapperExt/files.cmake
index 1b92156b3e..a46dc9a6dc 100644
--- a/Modules/MapperExt/files.cmake
+++ b/Modules/MapperExt/files.cmake
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 file(GLOB_RECURSE H_FILES RELATIVE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/*")
 
 set(CPP_FILES
   mitkEnhancedPointSetVtkMapper3D.cpp
   mitkGPUVolumeMapper3D.cpp
   mitkMeshMapper2D.cpp
   mitkMeshVtkMapper3D.cpp
   mitkSplineVtkMapper3D.cpp
   mitkUnstructuredGridMapper2D.cpp
   mitkUnstructuredGridVtkMapper3D.cpp
   mitkVectorImageMapper2D.cpp
+  mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.cpp
 
   vtkMaskedGlyph2D.cpp
   vtkMaskedGlyph3D.cpp
   vtkMitkGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.cpp
   vtkUnstructuredGridMapper.cpp
 
   vtkPointSetSlicer.cxx
 )
diff --git a/Modules/MapperExt/include/mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.h b/Modules/MapperExt/include/mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6a5d7a6cec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/MapperExt/include/mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.h
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MITKVTKSMARTVOLUMEMAPPER_H_HEADER_INCLUDED
+#define MITKVTKSMARTVOLUMEMAPPER_H_HEADER_INCLUDED
+
+// MITK
+#include "MitkMapperExtExports.h"
+#include "mitkBaseRenderer.h"
+#include "mitkCommon.h"
+#include "mitkImage.h"
+#include "mitkVtkMapper.h"
+
+// VTK
+#include <vtkImageChangeInformation.h>
+#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
+#include <vtkVersionMacros.h>
+#include <vtkVolumeProperty.h>
+
+namespace mitk
+{
+
+  //##Documentation
+  //## @brief Vtk-based mapper for VolumeData
+  //##
+  //## @ingroup Mapper
+  class MITKMAPPEREXT_EXPORT VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D : public VtkMapper
+  {
+  public:
+    mitkClassMacro(VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D, VtkMapper);
+
+    itkFactorylessNewMacro(Self) itkCloneMacro(Self)
+
+      virtual vtkProp *GetVtkProp(mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer) override;
+
+    virtual void ApplyProperties(vtkActor *actor, mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer) override;
+    static void SetDefaultProperties(mitk::DataNode *node, mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer = nullptr, bool overwrite = false);
+
+    virtual void MitkRenderVolumetricGeometry(mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer) override;
+
+  protected:
+    VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D();
+    virtual ~VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D();
+
+    virtual void GenerateDataForRenderer(mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer) override;
+
+    vtkSmartPointer<vtkVolume> m_Volume = nullptr;
+  };
+
+} // namespace mitk
+
+#endif /* MITKVTKSMARTVOLUMEMAPPER_H_HEADER_INCLUDED */
diff --git a/Modules/MapperExt/src/mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.cpp b/Modules/MapperExt/src/mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..61ab8bb53d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/MapperExt/src/mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+#include "mitkVtkSmartVolumeMapper3D.h"
+
+void mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::GenerateDataForRenderer(mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer)
+{
+  mitk::Image *input = const_cast<mitk::Image *>(static_cast<const mitk::Image *>(this->GetDataNode()->GetData()));
+  vtkImageData *inputData = input->GetVtkImageData(this->GetTimestep());
+}
+
+vtkProp* mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::GetVtkProp(mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer)
+{
+  return nullptr;
+}
+
+void mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::ApplyProperties(vtkActor *actor, mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer)
+{
+
+}
+
+void mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(mitk::DataNode *node, mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer, bool overwrite)
+{
+
+}
+
+void mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::MitkRenderVolumetricGeometry(mitk::BaseRenderer *renderer)
+{
+
+}
+
+mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D()
+{
+
+}
+
+mitk::VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D::~VtkSmartVolumeMapper3D()
+{
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Modules/ModuleList.cmake b/Modules/ModuleList.cmake
index fee011eeb6..ce4fcda2c1 100644
--- a/Modules/ModuleList.cmake
+++ b/Modules/ModuleList.cmake
@@ -1,80 +1,79 @@
 # The entries in the mitk_modules list must be
 # ordered according to their dependencies.
 
 set(mitk_modules
   Core
   CommandLine
   AppUtil
   DCMTesting
   RDF
   LegacyIO
   DataTypesExt
   Annotation
   LegacyGL
   AlgorithmsExt
   MapperExt
   DICOMReader
   DICOMReaderServices
   DICOMTesting
   SceneSerializationBase
   PlanarFigure
   ImageDenoising
   ImageExtraction
   LegacyAdaptors
   SceneSerialization
   Gizmo
   GraphAlgorithms
   Multilabel
   ImageStatistics
   ContourModel
   SurfaceInterpolation
   Segmentation
   PlanarFigureSegmentation
-  OpenViewCore
   QtWidgets
   QtWidgetsExt
   C3js
   QmlItems
   SegmentationUI
   Classification
   DiffusionImaging
   GPGPU
   OpenIGTLink
   IGTBase
   IGT
   CameraCalibration
   OpenCL
   OpenCVVideoSupport
   QtOverlays
   ToFHardware
   ToFProcessing
   ToFUI
   US
   USUI
   DicomUI
   Simulation
   Remeshing
   Python
   QtPython
   Persistence
   OpenIGTLinkUI
   IGTUI
   DicomRT
   RTUI
   IOExt
   XNAT
   TubeGraph
   BiophotonicsHardware
   TumorInvasionAnalysis
   MatchPointRegistration
   MatchPointRegistrationUI
   BoundingShape
   RenderWindowManager
   RenderWindowManagerUI
   CEST
   DICOMQI
 )
 
 if(MITK_ENABLE_PIC_READER)
   list(APPEND mitk_modules IpPicSupportIO)
 endif()